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翻译英语-2
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[单项选择]My reading in later life has supplied me with some possible explanations of his ().
A. temperature
B. temperament
C. temptation
D. temperance
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[单项选择]The local authorities realized the need to make () tot elderly people in their housing programs.
A. provision
B. preparation
C. requirement
D. specification
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[单项选择]If you wait for the () moment to act, you may have never begun your project.
A. definitive
B. optimum
C. implacable
D. righteous
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[简答题]Passage Four
If you choose lobster from a menu, then wherever you are in the world, the odds are that your dinner may have come from Arichat in Nova Scotia. The lobster, trapped off the Canadian coast, would have been driven to Louisville, Kentucky, where, cocooned in gel packs and styrofoam, it went for a wild ride on the carousels of the UPS superhub, where 17,000 high-speed conveyor belts, carrying more than 8m packages a week, whisk your living lobster to a plane and on onto tables across the globe.
John McPhee’s new book is about supply lines: how a lobster shares a conveyor belt with Bentley spare parts and jockey underwear. It is about boats, trains and trucks, but mostly it is about the people who drive, tend and love the machines. Don Ainsworth owns an 18-wheeler with "a tractor of such dark sapphire that only bright sunlight could bring forth its colour." To wash his truck Mr. Ainsworth uses only water that has either been
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[单项选择]The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important () for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.
A. implications
B. complications
C. innovations
D. complexities
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[单项选择]Some historians believe that John Jay could have played () in America's history as James Madison.
A. as an important role
B. as important a role
C. an important role as
D. a role as important
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[单项选择]When the young man realized that the police had spotted him, he made () the exit as quickly as possible, only to find that two policemen were waiting outside.
A. off
B. from
C. towards
D. for
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[单项选择]Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural () doing so.
A. aptitude for
B. repugnance to
C. ignorance of
D. reaction to
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[简答题]Passage Four
If you choose lobster from a menu, then wherever you are in the world, the odds are that your dinner may have come from Arichat in Nova Scotia. The lobster, trapped off the Canadian coast, would have been driven to Louisville, Kentucky, where, cocooned in gel packs and styrofoam, it went for a wild ride on the carousels of the UPS superhub, where 17,000 high-speed conveyor belts, carrying more than 8m packages a week, whisk your living lobster to a plane and on onto tables across the globe.
John McPhee’s new book is about supply lines: how a lobster shares a conveyor belt with Bentley spare parts and jockey underwear. It is about boats, trains and trucks, but mostly it is about the people who drive, tend and love the machines. Don Ainsworth owns an 18-wheeler with "a tractor of such dark sapphire that only bright sunlight could bring forth its colour." To wash his truck Mr. Ainsworth uses -
[单项选择]The Japanese dollar-buying makes traders eager to () dollars in fear of another government intervention.
A. let in
B. let out
C. let go of
D. let off
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[单项选择]Although her initial success was () by the fact that she was the daughter of a famous actor, the critics later acclaimed her as a star in her own right.
A. enhanced
B. impeded
C. refuted
D. superseded
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[单项选择]He was so () in the TV program that he forgot to turn the oven off.
A. tarnished
B. revamped
C. engrossed
D. bequeathed
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[单项选择]The eye tends to see distance as ().In painting, this is sometimes called "the vanishing point".
A. conforming
B. comforting
C. contriving
D. converging
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[单项选择]() an answer, they decided to send an express telegram to them.
A. Received not
B. Having received not
C. Not having received
D. Not received
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[单项选择]Passage Two
Of all the catastrophes that could befall America in coming years, a big terrorist attack, perhaps even bigger than those on September 11 th 2001, may be more likely than others. Who would pay for the millions in property damage, business losses and other claims from such an attack
This is the question with which America’s Congress is currently wrestling. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) was passed as a temporary measure after September 11th to provide a government back-stop for the insurance industry in the event of a catastrophic attack. It now says government can step in when insured losses from a terrorist event top $5m. TRIA has helped to stabilize the market, and enabled insurers to continue offering terrorism-risk cover even after swallowing the big losses imposed by September llth. But unless Congress acts last, TRIA will expire at the end of the year. One likely result is the loss of
A. provides insurance to properties in high-risk areas
B. should be extended as it is now
C. requires government support to risk insurance
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[单项选择]Overall, it is going to become much easier for people to communicate () the Net Communicating with others in real time will soon be the norm.
A. by
B. in
C. over
D. onto
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[单项选择]The Chairman was evidently () by Jim's words and glared at him for a few seconds.
A. put down
B. put across
C. put away
D. put out
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[单项选择]As a rule, what’s efficient in one place will be efficient in most other places, thus American businesses are fierce competitors () they choose to sell their product, having been formed in a competitive environment that breeds optimality.
A. whatever
B. whenever
C. wherever
D. however
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[单项选择]Generous public funding of basic science would () considerable benefits for the country's health, wealth and security.
A. result from
B. settle down
C. lie in
D. lead to
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[单项选择]Penny's () speech given at the state competition won her the first prize.
A. promptitude
B. impromptu
C. prorate
D. natant
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[单项选择]She had a strong () to give a talk about her experiences, because she didn't like the limelight.
A. disinclination
B. dissolution
C. dissidence
D. dissension
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[单项选择]I didn't like myself () in that way.
A. to be praised
B. praised
C. be praised
D. to have been praised
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[单项选择]During a war, many of the normal basic rights of the individual are () in the national interest.
A. disregarded
B. infringed
C. suspended
D. stamped
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[单项选择]The () of social security benefits often feel that they are contributing more than they in fact receive in terms of medical care, pensions, etC.
A. receipts
B. receivers
C. recipients
D. payees
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[单项选择]Allowing our cities to be () by cars has progressively affected children's independent mobility, for children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighborhood or city.
A. pervaded
B. diffused
C. dominated
D. intervened
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[简答题]We shall live to see the day, I trust, when no man shall build his house for posterity. He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes.., so that his great-grandchildren should cut precisely the same figure in the world... I doubt whether even one public edifice ... should be built of such permanent materials... Better that they should crumble to ruin, once in twenty years or thereabouts, as a hint to the people to reform the institutions which they symbolize.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Should buildings be built to crumble to ruin every twenty years
Write an essay in response to this question.
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[单项选择]The man went to prison, but the two boys () with a warning.
A. took off
B. got off
C. kept off
D. set off
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[单项选择]Many diseases that used to be considered () of mankind are now easily treatable with antibiotics.
A. scourges
B. blights
C. tortures
D. thorns
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[单项选择]Cynics believe that people who () compliments do so in order to be praised twice.
A. bask in
B. give out
C. gloat over
D. shrug off
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[单项选择]The symphony's second movement—slow, mournful, and ()—is based on a funeral march.
A. frivolous
B. effervescent
C. vicissitude
D. ephemeral
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[单项选择]I had never seen so many people with so many disabilities. I returned home, silently (). thinking how fortunate we really were.
A. retrospective
B. introspective
C. perspective
D. prospective
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[单项选择]() ghost exists in the world. That's your illusion.
A. No such a thing as
B. No such a thing as a
C. No such thing as a
D. No such thing as
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[单项选择]Passage Three
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marveling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him would he but translate his visions into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom. Lucy had done so never.
She was no dazzling execultante; nor was she the passionate young lady, who performs so tragically on a summer’s evening with the window open. Passion was there, but it could not be easily labeled. And she was tragical only in the
A. one needs to reject worldly pleasure to truly develop musical talent.
B. music is sometimes regarded as a substitute for creation.
C. there is often a mismatch between great musical talent and ordinary life.
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[单项选择]Perhaps we should think in terms of raising interest rates () them, in consideration of the new reports about inflation reported last June.
A. then reducing
B. and reduce
C. although reduce
D. rather than reducing
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[单项选择]Technically, negotiation occurs between people who are interdependent, () that the actions of one patty affect those of the other party and vice vers
A. as means
B. to mean
C. that means
D. meaning
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[单项选择]Passage One
The Roman language served as the first model for answering the question. Even to someone with no knowledge of Latin, the similarities among Roman languages would have made it natural to suggest that they were derived from a common ancestor. On the assumption that the shared characteristic of these languages came from the common ancestor, it would have been possible to reconstruct many of the characteristics of the original common language. In much the same way it became clear that the branches of the Indo-European family could be studied and a hypothetical family tree constructed, reading back to a common ancestor. This is the tree approach. The basic process represented by the tree model is one of divergence: when languages become isolated from one another, they differ increasingly, and dialects gradually become different until they become separate languages.
Divergence is by no means the only possible te
A. the similarities among Romance languages
B. the hypothetical family tree
C. the process known as divergence
D. the common features of Roman languages